[OSM-dev] phonetic gazateer, would be cool feature for nominatim

[Brian Quinion]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Brian Quinion
<openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk> wrote:
>> Lucene uses Double Metaphone[1] (amongst others) and it works really
>> nice across multiple languages. Certainly the best I've seen so far
>> and the one OSMdoc is using in the next version.

A bit of experimenting later I've made this live:

http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/?q=sheffeild

however it is far from fool proof both because double metaphone isn't
great with typos - only with phonetic spelling - and because the size
of the database makes for a very large number of potential hits.

--
 Brian